Well I have a few new pictures on the old camera taken in the last few weeks and days. The quilt is the one Mom is making for Mallory and Cody for the wedding. It's now almost ready to be quilted. Mallory chose the pattern and the fabrics (with Mom's help).

Next are pictures of our newest grandson, Cason, taken when we went to visit them. That's when I took the picture of Scott's new bike next to his fairly new truck with a small glimpse of Mandy's new SUV inside their new garage. Yes we're all probably a little jealous.

Last night Chad's dogs were going crazy and the puppy broke it's chain and fled to the front yard as a coyote started bothering them after dark. We could hear it yelping at the dogs, and Chad had to go out and release Tica who immediately ran towards the coyote somewhere out in the black. She came back and Chad put his dogs in their cage in the garage for the night. This morning after light about 7:00AM I looked out our bedroom window and the coyote was over by the dogs house (Yes, Chad has built them a doghouse. It's not totally finished yet, not too weatherproof. But I digress) eating the dog food. I woke Chad and he went out to shoot the coyote, but he had no shells left for his real gun, and had to shoot it with his 22. I think he got it twice, but it ran away. If it comes back, he's now prepared to take care of it. If we don't take care of it, it'll just keep bothering the dogs. We actually saw it a little later through the binoculars over near Meldrums.

No new pictures today, but Mom tells me it's been a while since my last blog entry. So I'll take a cue from Jens' last blog entry, which I enjoyed reading, and I'll just ramble for a while.

We have been fairly busy the last few weeks. We had a great time down in Great Falls a week ago Friday with Chad, Tiff and Mal. Mom and Mal went to buy fabric for the wedding and for the quilt mom is making for Mal and Cody. We ate at The Golden Corral for Chads' birthday, and the girls figured Chad ate about 1800 calories just in meat. Every time we go to that place it is bursting at the seams and this time was no exception. Hundreds of huge over weight people pigging out. We had fun.

We also stayed home to watch conference last weekend, and as always happens, our internet reception was like dial-up so we had to just listen to the audio. Oh well, one can sleep just as well either way. We had all the grandparents over for turkey dinner for Easter, and an excuse to open up our new table and use the new dinnerware.

We didn't find out that our next door neighbor Arvel Foote had died of a heart attack Saturday at noon until I heard about it at General Priesthood in Magrath Saturday night. We were very surprised to hear about it and Bev and I went down to visit Lynn and the Family after Chad and I got home from Priesthood. The funeral was just this last Friday and it was a very nice service.

We've also spent quite a bit of time lately getting Grandma Scott settled into the Good Sams in Magrath. Now that she has a permanent room we can do more to it and make it as nice for grandma as we can. Mom and I went to Lethbridge last Easter Saturday and bought Gramdma a new couch and a table and chairs, which look very nice in her room. Then yesterday I went to Lethbridge and bought Grandma some new curtains and bedding. Mom and I went and put up the curtains and etc after I got home. Now her room looks very nice and homey and I think Grandma is happy with it all.

The weather has actually been kinda miserable with all the wind lately. But last holiday Monday and yesterday, the weather was pretty nice in the afternoons. So we were able to take advantage of it and get a jump start on our yard work. I have power raked the two front lawns, roto-tilled all the flower gardens and the vegetable garden, Mom has cleaned out all the flower beds. And yesterday we re-transplanted all the flowers we took out of the flower beds we re-soiled last fall. Maybe we'll get this yard into pretty good shape for Mal and Cody's wedding.

The highlight of our weeks lately seems to be getting Steve's letters. I guess we're getting old. I hope you enjoy reading them when I forward them. Let me know any time you don't think it all forwarded properly. Yesterday Grandpa and Grandma Wilde told us they didn't know we were forwarding them to them.

Well, I hope this fills you in on the goings on at the home place. Bye for now.